Day: December 21, 2020

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Biden set to receive COVID vaccine as US distributes shots | Coronavirus pandemic News | Al Jazeera

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Biden set to receive COVID vaccine as US distributes shots | Coronavirus pandemic News | Al Jazeera

President-elect Joe Biden will receive his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe.

Monday’s event will come the same day that a second vaccine, produced by Moderna, will start arriving in states, joining Pfizer’s in the nation’s arsenal against the COVID-19 pandemic, which has now killed more than 317,000 people in the United States and upended life around the globe.

Rows and Records

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I was reading the Nature of Geographic Information, and while this is obvious when you think about, I never thought of it in this way as somebody without any real formal education in database programming. Page 13.

Often, data files are tabular in form, composed of rows and columns. Rows, also known as records, correspond with individual entities, such as customer accounts. Columns correspond with the various attributes associated with each entity. The attributes stored in the accounts database of a telecommunications company, for example, might include customer names, telephone numbers, addresses, current charges for local calls, long distance calls, taxes, etc.

December 21, 2020 – Next Sixteen Weeks

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Here is a brief chart that shows the climate normals, sunset times, and length of day for next four months in Delmar, NY…

Week Date Dawn Sun-
rise		 Sun-
set		 Dusk Day Noon Sun Angle Avg High Avg Low Record Hi Record Low
0 Dec 21 6:50 am 7:22 am 4:25 pm 4:57 pm 9:02 23.9° 34 19 62 (2018) -18 (1942)
1 Dec 28 6:52 am 7:24 am 4:29 pm 5:01 pm 9:04 24.1° 32 17 61 (1982) -14 (1951)
2 Jan 4 6:53 am 7:25 am 4:35 pm 5:07 pm 9:10 24.7° 31 15 64 (1950) -15 (1904)
3 Jan 11 6:52 am 7:24 am 4:43 pm 5:14 pm 9:19 25.6° 30 14 57 (1975) -25 (1968)
4 Jan 18 6:49 am 7:20 am 4:51 pm 5:22 pm 9:30 26.9° 30 14 59 (1973) -19 (1957)
5 Jan 25 6:45 am 7:15 am 5:00 pm 5:30 pm 9:44 28.5° 31 14 61 (1938) -12 (1963)
6 Feb 1 6:39 am 7:08 am 5:09 pm 5:38 pm 10:00 30.4° 32 15 65 (1989) -20 (1920)
7 Feb 8 6:31 am 7:00 am 5:18 pm 5:47 pm 10:17 32.5° 33 16 52 (1925) -16 (1950)
8 Feb 15 6:22 am 6:51 am 5:27 pm 5:56 pm 10:36 34.8° 35 17 55 (2006) -22 (1943)
9 Feb 22 6:12 am 6:41 am 5:36 pm 6:04 pm 10:55 37.3° 36 19 68 (1997) -08 (1963)
10 Mar 1 6:01 am 6:30 am 5:45 pm 6:13 pm 11:15 39.9° 39 21 66 (2017) -09 (1948)
11 Mar 8 5:50 am 6:18 am 5:53 pm 6:21 pm 11:35 42.6° 41 23 68 (2012) -02 (1989)
12 Mar 15 6:38 am 7:06 am 7:01 pm 7:29 pm 11:55 45.4° 44 25 72 (2019) 1 (1993)
13 Mar 22 6:26 am 6:54 am 7:10 pm 7:38 pm 12:15 48.2° 47 28 81 (2012) 2 (1875)
14 Mar 29 6:13 am 6:41 am 7:18 pm 7:46 pm 12:36 50.9° 50 31 85 (1946) 0 (1923)
15 Apr 5 6:01 am 6:29 am 7:26 pm 7:54 pm 12:56 53.6° 54 33 82 (1928) 14 (2016)
16 Apr 12 5:48 am 6:18 am 7:34 pm 8:03 pm 13:16 56.2° 57 36 84 (1977) 13 (1874)

A Winter Walk

Sun angle

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Today at noon, the sun angle will be 23.9 degrees, lowest and furthest to the south of the year. In one month, it will increase to 27.1 degrees and by the first day of summer 70.8 degrees – much higher in the sky – close to being right overhead.